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David Ullmann
David also composes music for film, most recently completing the score for “The Happy House,” a feature filn by D.W. Young. David’s first film project, Atsushi Funahashi’s “Echoes,” was well received by critics and film festivals, winning three Jury and Audience Awards at Annonay International Film Festival in France and the High Hope Award at the Munich International Film Festival.
His second album Falling, will be released this summer, featuring all original compositions and a new group that includes Chris Dingman (vibes), Gary Wang (bass), Karel Ruzicka Jr. (sax), and Vinnie Sperrazza (drums). David is simultaneously working on two other albums. Stay tuned for details.
Beginning Fall 2012, David will be teaching guitar at John Jay College in Manhattan.
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World Jazz Quintet: Live At QPAC Theatre
by Troy Dostert
Although all the members of the World Jazz Quintet are New York-based, the group's name does evoke the global palette of its music. Led by pianist Francis Honwho, on his trio outing Before Dawn (2018), worked within pop and classical idioms in addition to conventional jazzthe World Jazz Quintet incorporates traditional Asian folk musics and a good dose of funk-based fusion in achieving its synthesis of musical touchstones. The seven cuts on Live at QPAC Theatre are well-paced, ...
read moreDavid Ullmann talks Jazz Guitar
by Nick Davies
This week we talk to David Ullmann about his new album Sometime. We then mix up new releases and tracks from the archives with a special focus on the album of the week, Cycle by Rain Sultanov & Isfar Sarabski Playlist Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez El Punta Cubano" from Duologue (Mack Avenue Records) 0:00 Alister Spence & Satoko Fujii Orchestra Imagine Meeting You Here" from Imagine Meeting You Here (Alister Spence Music) 05:26 Chris Potter Hold ...
read moreThe David Ullmann 8: Corduroy
by Dave Wayne
I have to admit to suffering a bit of cognitive dissonance upon listening to David Ullmann's Corduroy. Ullmann's original compositions, expertly played by an ensemble comprised of Brooklyn's top-drawer modern jazz talent, are ostensibly inspired by television themes from the 70s. For me, 70s television themes evoke gritty, urban sounds full of clavinet, fuzz-wah Rhodes, funky drums, thumping Fender bass, and blues-rock guitar. You know... like Mannix, Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Barney Miller, Sanford and Son, and... well... you ...
read moreDavid Ullmann: Hidden
by Stephen Latessa
Like an ace pitcher, guitarist and composer David Ullmann keeps us on our toes with a wily array of different looks, angles and spins on Hidden. There is a sense of movement throughout the tracks, as if one were wandering through a city and passing through various neighborhoods. Tabla and Fender Rhodes are employed, along with more traditional instrumentation, to add subtle shifts and textures.
The title track opens the album with mad bass and skittering tabla lending ...
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